Ron, because I'd rather blog than comment from

Room 920, Affinia Manhattan, New York, New York, let me consider the idea you posit ("Hard copy is truth"). I am an archivist, a breed of saver that has had a hard time learning to save the technologically ephemeral. We want, deep within us whether we mean for it to be so or not, something to hold, to touch. We are people in love with the artifact, the tactile, and we believe in it.

But nothing can be that simple.

If hard copy is truth, than most of what we make is false (continuing your trope)...